VB.NET Open File and Keep Characters Intact Just Like Notepad
Hi,
I am trying to incorporate a seemly easy feature into a program to convert some older files to a new format and am having issues opening the files and keeping the original characters intact.
an example of the character string for conversion is below(minus the quotes)
"2 13.0000•© 0.5000 0.5000 13.1757 "
The 2 character that need to be converted are the "•©" these character appear perfectly fine when they are opened in notepad, but when using a streamreader to pull them in to VB.NET they do not appear properly their formatting is changed to 2 squares.
Any help would be appreciated, I am kinda stumped right now.
I am trying to incorporate a seemly easy feature into a program to convert some older files to a new format and am having issues opening the files and keeping the original characters intact.
an example of the character string for conversion is below(minus the quotes)
"2 13.0000•© 0.5000 0.5000 13.1757 "
The 2 character that need to be converted are the "•©" these character appear perfectly fine when they are opened in notepad, but when using a streamreader to pull them in to VB.NET they do not appear properly their formatting is changed to 2 squares.
Any help would be appreciated, I am kinda stumped right now.
Éric Moreau
maybe http://emoreau.com/Entries/Articles/2011/04/Detecting-the-Byte-Order-Mark-of-a-file-from-a-Net-application.aspx
ASKER
Unfortunately I have tried that and in the example code it detects as Encoding.ASCII with when it pull s the file into the textbox it displays the special characters as "??" and not as "•©"
Since it does that I have no way of determining that those are the 2 characters that need to be converted. All I have to detect those characters and convert to the new characters is the following line
txtConvertTo.Text = txtConvertFrom.Text.Replac
I setup a test to make sure it works by pasting the special characters "•©" from the file directly to a VB.Net textbox and running that line of code and it works fine. It just can't opening the file automatically and pull it in with the right encoding or something else.
Since it does that I have no way of determining that those are the 2 characters that need to be converted. All I have to detect those characters and convert to the new characters is the following line
txtConvertTo.Text = txtConvertFrom.Text.Replac
I setup a test to make sure it works by pasting the special characters "•©" from the file directly to a VB.Net textbox and running that line of code and it works fine. It just can't opening the file automatically and pull it in with the right encoding or something else.
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The streamreader use the Encoding.Default when encoding is not used.